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Special Report Transcript Episode 8, Section 7, Time 34:55The Truth Commission has heard evidence before of attacks on exile South Africans in neighbouring states. The attack on Father Michael Lapsley in Zimbabwe, the murder of Jackie Quinn, and others in Lesotho in 1987. On Tuesday a remarkable survivor told of the bloody South African raid on Maseru in 1982. // Nellie Marwanqana and her family fled to Lesotho in 1982. Four days after their arrival in Maseru she stood by as South African commando’s killed her husband and two children as well as some fellow South Africans who were staying in the same house. She was one of three widows who testified about the Maseru slaughter in which more that forty people died. Notes: Max du Preez; Aftermath of Maseru raid References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims■ CROSS-BORDER MILITARY OPERATIONS/RAIDS 419 Several cross-border operations undertaken by the SADF were publicly acknowledged at the time by the South African government. 420 In its first submission to the Commission, the SANDF provided information on external operations targeted at what ... |